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Top 5 Cybercriminal Motives In 2013 Attacks

CRN, By Rob Westervelt

Attackers struck at the New York Times,
targeted employees at Apple and Facebook, and were responsible for a massive
data security breach at Adobe Systems that exposed the company's precious
software source code.

From hacktivists aiming to hijack
accounts or steal and expose data to nation-state attackers looking at
maintaining persistence on corporate systems for a lengthy period of time, they
all share similar hacking tools and techniques, say security experts. Common
vulnerabilities and configuration errors are consistently used in all the attacks.